It was only little ones Jaap... Not true oxyacetylene but oxygen and MAPP gas. It's still very, very effective thoughcaptainhaddock wrote:Good exercise Jim dragging along oxyacetylene burners:)
It's good enough for gas welding on thin stuff and excellent for brazing as well as being a hot spanner. Sadly it's not good for XM welding as oxyacetylene is not recommended for the kind of steel an XM is made of. MIG is the welder of choice for that and very soon I'm going to kit myself out with a decent MIG set. I have a very high quality and very old stick welder and can do surprisingly thin stuff with it but not as thin as an XM.
There's a small group of us, Chris570, a V6 Xantia owner who also has an RX-8 with a wrecked engine and a half-built Cobra with Rover V8 power and I. We call ourselves Team WFA and basically almost nothing beats us. So far we haven't but especially with the RX-8 we've come close a few times. We can often pool our resources and find an answer. I do little practical work for the team these days but I do my bit to keep the others watered and fed and occasionally submit a thought or idea on how to do something.
Some say we're a bit like the Top Gear trio; all I know is we all have cars powered by ES9 engines and soon the RX-8 is to be similarly powered if all goes to plan..
The other members of the team say I'm James May.
I did Russ and although I did nothing very physical I really enjoyed the spanners and getting out and having a good session on the cars. Did me a world of good tooruss92xmsed wrote:Excellent Jim, sounds like you had a good weekend too!
I went swimming this morning and did three lengths
Getting better!
Tomorrow you'll do 4 laps for sure!
